Thanks to Michele for this Frugal Baby Tip!Question: About environment issues, my husband wondered if it was better with all the soap and energy. He also wondered if it would be cheaper or not?

First, think about the amount of water, bleach and other chemicals used tomake disposables that just get thrown away. Plus all the landfill spacetaken up by them, and the untreated human waste waiting to be leached intoour drinking water (do you dump the poop in the toilet with disposables? Inever did)

Yes, you save money! I used disposables on my son for 3 1/4 years until hetrained and we have saved so much money using cloth with our daughter! Thecost of the water and soap is negligable, it's only a few more loads perweek, I found our dishwasher used more water and energy (I stopped usingit). My husband says, $'s saved? TONS. He also likes the peace of mind that weare using something more natural than the "high tech chemical crap" (hiswords) in disposables.

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